The proposed 2026 national budget could delay pay increases and retirement benefits for teachers, civil servants and uniformed personnel after more than P43 billion in mandatory personnel benefits were moved to the government’s unprogrammed appropriati...

Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla, who is at the forefront of the current anticorruption campaign as the country’s chief graft prosecutor, dismissed rumors that he was hospitalized. “Fake news,” Remulla said in a curt reply to the Inquirer’s request for ...

CALAPAN CITY—Government troops clashed with suspected communist rebels Thursday morning in Barangay Cabacao, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro, after residents reported the presence of armed New People’s Army (NPA) members in the area, the Philippine Ar...

LOS ANGELES – An ailing 70-year-old Filipino grandmother and green card holder is facing deportation after four decades in the United States, and her family is worried she might not survive the long flight to the Philippines. Rebecca Pinyerd suffers fr...

The Electric Vehicles Association of the Philippines (EVAP) welcomed the Land Transportation Office’s (LTO) ban on electric tricycles (e-trikes) on major roads in the National Capital Region (NCR), even as it called for a “clearer implementation” of th...

More than 70 percent of road crash injuries recorded over the holidays involved motorcycles, according to the latest data released on Friday by the Department of Health (DOH). The agency also reported that five of the seven deaths recorded from Dec. 21...

From my reading of the fourth quarter statistics of Social Weather Stations (SWS), the ending of 2025 wasn’t too bad; but it wasn’t as good as before. I’ll base this on two seasonal indicators, about Christmas and the New Year, and two regular quarterl...

A fire at a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in the early hours of New Year’s Day has left dozens of people presumed dead and around 100 injured, according to authorities. Here is a look at some other nightclub, bar and music venue fires th...

The last day of December is just another day to survive. The street smelled of salt and ice, mingling with the faint smoke of barbecue from nearby homes. Small waves of heat rose from the pavement. Children ran past, their laughter bouncing off the con...

SEOUL, South Korea—The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first known visit to a sacred family mausoleum, a step that experts say bolsters her status as her father’s potential heir. The New Year’s Day visit has even sparked sp...

A Pulse Asia survey commissioned by Stratbase Group found that Filipinos want government leaders to make food prices affordable, reduce corruption and create more jobs in their communities. Respondents to the commissioned survey conducted from Dec. 12 ...

Following the holiday festivities, another 300 cases of firework-related injuries (FWRIs) may be recorded on top of the initial 235 logged on Thursday, the Department of Health (DOH) said. “Our Department of Health Epidemiology Bureau is continuing to ...

Acting PNP chief Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said investigators are looking at the possibility that a single group was behind the two smuggling operations, worth some P2.6 billion, in Malabon City and Batangas City. The Highway Patrol Group (HP...

Sell-out crowds. High TV and streaming numbers. Those are enough to make one think that the Premier Volleyball League and its teams are raking it in. The PVL undoubtedly is a great marketing vehicle for its teams and their products, as owners spend mil...

COTABATO CITY—The parliament in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is seeking another schedule to have a crack at the pending measure to create 32 parliamentary districts, a crucial requirement to ensure that its thrice-postpon...

Philippine collegiate basketball saw the rise of two young stars last year, with Jacob Cortez helping La Salle to the Season 88 men’s title in the UAAP and Jonathan Manalili taking Letran all the way to the Finals of NCAA Season 101. They came from dif...

Coach Tim Cone believes Barangay Ginebra has all the momentum it needs going into another semifinal duel with powerhouse sister team San Miguel Beer. The Gin Kings will be coming off a dramatic quarterfinal series encounter with Converge, where they be...

Just when it seemed that the Philippine women’s football team’s knack of making one history-making feat after another had ended, the Filipinas proved otherwise near the end of last year in the 33rd Southeast Asian Games, where grit under pressure-packe...

Fuel prices are expected to move in mixed directions next week, with diesel likely to increase while gasoline seeing little to no change, based on early market indicators. Jetti Petroleum president Leo Bellas said initial estimates for the week of Jan....

MANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said cybersecurity risks remain a major obstacle to the wider use of digital payments in the Philippines, with the central bank pinning its hopes on a more coordinated strategy to contai...

The Marcos administration is preparing for a major push in January to restore investor confidence through a coordinated effort in which economic agencies will present their detailed plans and programs to the private sector, the Inquirer has learned. Ac...

Government infrastructure spending opened the fourth quarter on a weak note, with the flood control scandal continuing to weigh on October disbursements and likely to drag on through the rest of the year. In its latest disbursement report, the Departme...

Economic losses from increasingly destructive typhoons could reach as much as 2 percent of annual output if the Philippines fails to implement climate adaptation measures, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said, underscoring the rising risks posed ...

Philippine banks expanded lending to agriculture through the end of the third quarter, continuing to exceed a government-mandated quota for one of the economy’s most vital—and long-neglected—sectors. According to preliminary data from the Bangko Sentra...

Despite geopolitical uncertainty linked to US tariffs, the Philippines’ electronics exports are poised to post double-digit growth in 2025. This could even come near their record high of $49.09 billion. This is according to Danilo Lachica, president of...

ILLUSTRATION BY RUTH MACAPAGAL I’ve been fortunate enough to collaborate with and advise some of the world’s most prominent business leaders—from self-made billionaire entrepreneurs to the wealthiest families running global enterprises and Fortune 500 ...

The Philippines is experiencing a systemic national crisis. The very leaders entrusted by the people to protect the common good stand accused of abusing that trust so blatantly that public outrage is now widespread. Confidence in national leadership—be...

MANILA, Philippines — Police confiscated P735,000 worth of cigarettes in Zamboanga del Sur for allegedly lacking the required Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) tax stamps, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said on Sunday. Authorities...

MANILA, Philippines — Suspected shabu (crystal meth) worth P7.59 million was confiscated and a man was arrested in Bogo City, Cebu on Sunday, the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group (PNP DEG) said. The operation was conducted in Sitio San...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Sunday said it arrested an alleged communist terrorist group (CTG) member supposedly behind the 2017 burning of two 10-wheeler trucks in Misamis Oriental. In a statement, the PNP said it arr...

MANILA, Philippines — Authorities on Sunday arrested the most wanted person at the regional level in Metro Manila over a 2024 murder in Taguig City, the Southern Police District (SPD) said. The arrested suspect — identified by the SPD only as “Angel Ac...

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MANILA, Philippines – No bettor won the top prizes in Sunday night’s Ultra Lotto 6/58 and Super Lotto 6/49 draws, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office said. In the Ultra Lotto 6/58 draw, the winning combination was 28-44-31-12-03-23. The jackpot s...

MANILA, Philippines — Highlighting that the Holy Family lived an ordinary life filled with trials, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle invited families to reflect on their own journeys of patience, service, and love as Christmas and New Year celebrations conti...

MANILA, Philippines—Barangay Ginebra outlasted Converge in overtime, 99-98, in the PBA Philippine Cup quarterfinals courtesy of a game-winner from Stephen Holt. After trying to get into the driver’s seat for most of the game, the Gin Kings tasted the m...

MANILA, Philippines — “The claim of a corruption-free budget is the most explosive lie that will greet the new year.” These were the words used by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Secretary General Mong Palatino as he reacted to the signing of the bicameral ...